submitting The primary point in the spiritual ethics of the Gospel is humiliation; self is dethroned as against God, and consequently as against men. Here the special, but not exclusive, reference is to fellow-Christians. "[The precept] seems to have been suggested by the humble and loving spirit which is the moving principle of thanksgiving" (Ellicott).

Special applications of this great principle now follow, in a study of the relative duties of the Christian Home.

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